On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, SA wrote:
> Let me offer a couple of data points on this subject and tell me what you
> think.
I like the general shape of your escalation argument. But the failure of Washington state income tax is probably a weak data point. As Steve Hecker pointed out last time this came up, the national party issues here are swamped by the provincial state identity ones, to wit that Washington has never had a state income tax, is very attached to not having one, and when proposed it's always been clobbered at the polls by 3 to 1 or so. In that context, if there's anything interesting about this result, it's not that it failed but that it came so much closer than usual.
Michael